Hello. I'm trying to figure out how to install Windows XP Home Edition to a blank 80 GB HDD. In the boot bios I selected my DVD drive as top priority so it boots that first when I restart my PC with the Windows disc in it. I made this windows xp home disc myself with Nero (burn bootable image). It keeps taking me to a DOS screen starting with the word Caldera DR-DOS and ending with [DR-DOS]A:\> (enter text). But I cannot type anything at that point. I can't even exit that screen... It just sits there. I have a Gateway computer by the way. I extracted the files from the Windows XP Home.iso with PowerISO then burned them to a CD-R with Nero Express 6 > Data > Bootable Data Disc, added the files then burned... I burned them to the disc as a floppy image. It says it's supposed to boot when Windows starts in DOS. Funny thing is my disc only boots after I log on... http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?...untitledxj9.jpg Please tell me what / how am I supposed to burn this CD iso so that it will boot at Windows startup into DOS like it's supposed to....
That's the thing; ISO's aren't meant to be extracted like zip or rar files..... they're 'exact replicas' of a disc in an image format so; what you do is find a prog capable of writing iso to disc Also; if ur burnin' to a CD-R why the HELL are you writing it as a floppy disc?? P.S. It might be even possible that the iso file is bad?-->that could be why when you start the disc it just 'sits there'
Nope. My images are good. I found the problem. You were right, I was burning them wrong. I burned them to a CD-R with PowerISO and it works just like the real Windows XP Pro SP2 disc. /cheers XD
